For two decades, some Israeli officials & Israel partisans have worked to embed a new, Israel-focused definition of antisemitism in institutions around the world, from international bodies & national governments to college campuses in heartland America. As a result, advocacy for Palestinian rights is on the way to being curtailed and even criminalized as “hate.”
By Alison Weir. The European Jewish Congress has launched a worldwide social media campaign against “antisemitism” (which, in EJC eyes, includes opposition to Israeli human rights abuses). The man behind the campaign, EJC President Moshe Kantor, is a Russian-Israeli oligarch known for “unscrupulous business dealings” who says BDS is antisemitic, calls for severe punishment of “intolerance,” and is the founder of numerous international entities.
IAK INVESTIGATION: For two decades, some Israeli officials and partisans have worked to embed a new, Israel-focused definition of antisemitism in institutions around the world, from international bodies and national governments to small college campuses in heartland America. This effort is now snowballing rapidly. As a result, advocacy for Palestinian rights is well on the way to being curtailed and even criminalized as “hate.”
A new report maps a network of Israel advocacy groups that work to influence Berlin to discredit the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. ‘The debate over UNRWA was definitely not evidence-based.’
For the past 5 years, the center has been operating inside the New England Patriots’ home stadium. Wall-sized screens, refreshed every minute, show live updates on public conversation topics allegedly related to antisemitism. The project – “Blue Square Alliance Against Hate” by Patriots’ owner Robert Kraft – monitors more than 1 billion social media posts every day.
Hillel International’s antisemitism trainings and Campus Climate Initiative are wolves in sheep’s clothing, designed to ensure that Palestine-related speech, protest, and even thought are rendered forbidden on U.S. college and university campuses.
The ADL uses dubious reporting methods and tends to conflate right-wing racial extremism with pro-Palestine speech and activity.
SPOILER: Despite the smear campaigns, candidates who supported Palestine won the elections in Scotland and New York
The troll farming operation Act.IL has been repackaged as RiseApp.
Even with this story coming more than a year after a United Nations report called out Israel for “systematically” subjecting Palestinians to “sexualized torture,” it was met with apoplectic – though predictable – rage from the Israeli government and a bevy of prominent pro-Israel figures and writers.